I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

Being German, I think we don't really express a lot of things.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

I do try to experience the emotions as they come, but sometimes it becomes just too much.

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.